Coal Miner's DaughterOur heroine hails from the desperately poor coal mining District 12, where she lost her father to an accident in the mines. It's the most destitute part of Panem. Fortunately,...

Poor sweet Peeta: he's the kid in the corner who quietly pines for the pretty girl who never notices. And in this case, he's the handsome, camera-ready baker's son who saved Katniss once and helps...

It wouldn't be a love triangle without a third leg, and Gale is most definitely the third in this party. Basically, he's everything you'd want in a boyfriend: strong, hunky, principled, and even in...

We've never seen the devil smile, but if we did, we figure he'd look a lot like President Snow. The sinister leader of Panem may carry the basic vibes of a jolly old Santa Claus, but he's got some...

Haymitch Abernathy is a drunk. He spends most of the movie inebriated, and when people take his booze away from him, he gets downright violent. Yet he's Peeta and Effie's advisor, being the only ot...

Caesar is an enemy who seems like a friend. Effie is a friend who looks for all the world like an enemy. One look at that Purple People Eater number she's wearing and we know whose side she apparen...

Cinna's special in ways that have nothing to do with being played by a rock star. His first words to Katniss are "I'm sorry this happened to you," the first time anyone from the Capitol really ackn...

Caesar Flickerman is played by a set of gleaming capped teeth wearing Stanley Tucci. This is by design. There's no game-show host so phony, no talk-show diva so over-the-top, no television personal...

Rue's a little girl like Primrose, who didn't have a big sister looking after her. Oh, the other boy from her District looks out for her in the arena, but it's clear that she's on her own and in ov...

In some ways, Primrose is just a MacGuffin: a device used to move the plot forward instead of a character in and of herself. Katniss has guarded Primrose ever since their father died, and when litt...

When Katniss lost her father, she dug in tighter. Her mother, on the other hand, just kind of gave up on life. She stopped doing those little mom things that make such a difference, like feeding he...

Led by future-world Hitler Youth club president Cato (Alexander Ludwig), the Careers are the biggest threat to our heroes in the arena. They come from District 1 and 2, where (as Haymitch's helpful...

We don't see a whole lot of the other Tributes, since most of this comes from Katniss's point of view. If she's not running from them or trying to protect them, they really don't enter into her wor...